Fidel Castro, Speech made in the closing session of the Cultural Congress of Havana, at the "Chaplin" Theatre on January 12, 1968; "Year of the Heroic Guerrilla", in Fidel Castro: Major Speeches (London: Stage 1, 1968), p. 196

The solutions put forth by imperialism are the quintessence of simplicity...When they speak of the problems of population and birth, they are in no way moved by concepts related to the interests of the family or of society...Just when science and technology are making incredible advances in all fields, they resort to technology to suppress revolutions and ask the help of science to prevent population growth. In short, the peoples are not to make revolutions, and women are not to give birth. This sums up the philosophy of imperialism.

— Fidel Castro on Science

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "The solutions put forth by imperialism are the quintessence of simplicity...When they speak of the problems of population and birth, they are in no way moved by concepts related to the interests of the family or of society...Just when science and technology are making incredible advances in all fields, they resort to technology to suppress revolutions and ask the help of science to prevent population growth. In short, the peoples are not to make revolutions, and women are not to give birth. This sums up the philosophy of imperialism." in the context of "Fidel Castro, Speech made in the closing session of the Cultural Congress of Havana, at the "Chaplin" Theatre on January 12, 1968; "Year of the Heroic Guerrilla", in Fidel Castro: Major Speeches (London: Stage 1, 1968), p. 196" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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About Fidel Castro

Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (13 August 1926 – 25 November 2016) was a Cuban politician and communist revolutionary who governed the Republic of Cuba as First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba from 1961 to 2011, Prime Minister from 1959 to 1976 and then as President from 1976 to 2008. A Marxist–Leninist and Cuban nationalist, Castro also served as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba from 1961 until 2011. Under his administration, Cuba became a one-party communist state, while industry and business were nationalized and state socialist reforms were implemented throughout society.